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* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Many a person would have been upset at Gilbert if he had been the model for King Gama—but since Gilbert was mocking Gilbert, it was all right.

* [[Creator's Pet]]: Alexis Pointdextre the designated hero of the Sorcerer

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: "Hail Poetry" from ''Pirates''. Sort of an inverse [[Non Sequitur Scene|BLAM]].

** Really, there's at least one great song in every show. ''Pirates'' is particularly strong in this regard.

** Said tune is actually a musical [[Shout-Out]] to Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" from ''Il Trovatore''. There's an even more explicit one hidden in "Poor Wand'ring One," which copies a bit in the aria "Sempre Libera" from Verdi's ''La Traviata'' note for note.

* [[Fair for Its Day]]: The apparent [[Straw Feminist|anti-feminism]] in''Princess Ida'' is ''nothing'' compared to the genuine Anti-Feminist jokes of its time. The Tennyson poem it's based on is also arguably worse in many respects than Gilbert's parody, since the [[Framing Story]] basically claims it's an incompetent attempt by feminists to rewrite history, which ends up showing that a woman's place is with her man. In Gilbert's version, the worst you get is some ''characters'' poking fun of women's education—before they get there, and all of whom think that educated women are ''fantastic'' once they meet them, skewering of some of the man-hating aspects of Ida's college, and a scene where book-learning meets reality, and the woman refuses to do surgery which she was taught to do from books alone. Plus, in Gilbert's other work, in ''Utopia, Limited'', the Cambridge-educated Princess Zara never has this poked fun of, and is shown to be vastly more capable than most of the men, so it's not like he makes a habit of anti-Feminism.